Subject: Re: I must need to drink more Kool-aid
...they're forcing Apple to open up access to their systems so that third party developers of software and peripherals can interact with it.

Just like Microsoft a few decades ago. They lost some anti-trust suits (or were going to lose), and ended up putting "hooks" into Windows (specifically) that third-party developers could have access to, and develop competing applications. They didn't have access to all of Windows. Just enough to assure that they could "hook" into Windows and have a stable app.

Which is why we have -for example- Vivaldi and Firefox. I'd say also WordPerfect, but that seems to have died. But OpenOffice is still a going thing.